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Hey, it's Bronson Jones from Venice Underground Comedy.

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Welcome to the Storyworthy podcast. Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Sfittany.

Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn and I'm here with Hanna Sf, and we're coming to you from the Los Angeles Mission on East Fifth Street in downtown Los Angeles.

Now, that's a, that's Skid Row. Is that Skid Row? It is right near Skid Row. I see. It's Skid Row adjacent. I see.

That's how the real estate people are advertising it.

It's Skid Row adjacent.

I see.

All right.

And we're coming from the homeless shelter tonight because our guest, comedian Bronson Jones, he brings forth the topic, The Homeless People in My Neighborhood. Yes. By the way, no one has ever said, Homeless Shelter with as much enthusiasm as you just did. You're like, I love a homeless shelter. Well, you know, honestly, I think it's sort of interesting. You know, we have had now like 320 episodes of Storyworthy, and we've never talked about the homeless.

That's true. We've said, yeah, how many LSD or drinking stories who we had? Dozens. We have acid stories. Virginity stories. We've had those. And everybody's, yeah, it's right. But every single person in L.A. and most American cities passes a homeless person every five seconds.

We pass homeless people every day in my neighborhood, Los Phyllis, and Silver Lake. I kind of live between those two little towns.

And it's really tricky, right? Because obviously I have empathy toward these people, but yet I walk around them.

Well, there's a limit. And there's literally a limit to how much, let's say that you decided,

let's say you had enough money to give $100 a day to homeless people.

Right.

Right?

So you gave $5 to every homeless person you met.

Eventually you would run out of money, so then you go, well, I'll give them a dollar a day. You know, it's like literally there's an bottomless amount of homeless people. And endless amount. Yeah, money is not going to be the answer. Well, that being said, the economy is so much better. And so, in fact, there are less homeless people. I mean, I looked at some stats,

and there are, this makes good podcasting, by the way. Homeless stats. This is what drives the needle.

They really do. You know, lesbians? No, forget it. It's all about homeless stats. All right, here's what I read.

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